If you have summer travel plans booked with American Airlines, you better check with the airline before heading to the airport. American is canceling hundreds of flights because of staffing shortages. “I think it feels like freedom a little bit to get out of the house and to go away like we used to,” said …
For the seventh consecutive year, Gov. Tom Wolf proposes a severance tax in the state budget. The Wolf administration claims that the severance tax, along with other proposed taxes, will help us recover from the covid-19 crisis. The natural gas industry plays a critical role in developing products we use in our everyday lives as …
Letter to the editor: Severance tax not solution for Pa.’s recovery Read More »
No one was planning for a pandemic when rumblings started in early 2020, but here we are a year and half later trying to understand what happened and where to go next. When it comes to Pennsylvania’s economy, the answers are not as simple as going back to how things were before. Business and political …
Editorial: Chamber of Commerce pledge ‘Rise to the Challenge’ deserves support Read More »
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania was predicted to start the 2021 – 2022 financial year with a mounting budget deficit, but the commonwealth is in decent fiscal shape. Economists initially approximated more than 2.5 billion dollars in the hole at the start of the 2021 – 2022 budget year in addition to the continuation of structural deficits …
Pennsylvania government revenue up about $3 billion Read More »
The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, the state’s largest broad-based business association, recently launched the second phase of its Bringing PA Back economic initiative. Phase one addressed employers’ short-term needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Phase two will focus on creating a framework that will promote long-term economic growth and opportunity. This will be done …